Book Artists Unbound: Providing Access to Creator Metadata with EAC-CPF

The Book Artists Unbound project centralizes contextual background information about book artists to foster new modes of discovery for artists' books. The workflow discussed harvests creator metadata elements from a MARC-format bibliographic database and generates rich creator records for artists encoded with the EAC-CPF schema. Using the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP) editor allows the data to be semiautomatically enhanced with information and URIs from WorldCat Identities and VIAF. An end-user interface experiments with the efficacy of browsing by artist to encourage discovery.